I want to hurt whoever picked that typeface

  • CelloMike
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    1 month ago

    A man did this in London in 1810, but with everything - chimney sweeps, piano deliveries, priests, lawyers, coal carts, doctors, undertakers, the archbishop of Canterbury…

    It brought the whole area to a standstill and the guy won a guinea in a bet and ran away to the countryside

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berners_Street_hoax

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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    851 month ago

    When I was a kid I ordered a escort to our house for my stepfather.

    My mom got home about ten minutes before she showed up and the fireworks started!

    The next guy was a bit nicer.

  • @MeDuViNoX
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    441 month ago

    Anon only ordered one pizza that evening, but he ate it all!

    • rand_alpha19
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      141 month ago

      IIRC it’s one of the handwriting fonts they have on Samsung phones. Choco Cooky, Cool Jazz, etc.

    • Björn Tantau
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      321 month ago

      They want their money, though. And I bet some of them were curious what this was all about.

      • Codex
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        41 month ago

        I mean, is this story set in the 90s? Where can you order pizza from today that:

        1. doesn’t have caller ID (oh hey, the same number is calling again for the 12th time tonight)

        2. doesn’t require payment up front

        3. Wouldn’t notice that every sequential house on the same street had ordered

        • @[email protected]
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          61 month ago

          It was specified that there were multiple pizza delivery services. Even so 1. requires the phone operator to notice, 2. was perfectly normal a few years ago and I know some places where it’s still possible.